The Hamlet Podcast
A weekly podcast now exploring Shakespeare's Macbeth. Every episode covers approximately 30 lines of the play - week by week, until we finish sometime in 2023!
Latest episodes
Dec 28, 2024 • 9min
Twelve Days of Christmas - Colly or Calling Birds?
A little seasonal treat! A romp through the strangest of Christmas gift-guides, via Hamlet, Herod, Coventry and Glendalough. Season's greetings to you! 🎄
Dec 27, 2024 • 11min
Twelve Days of Christmas - French Hens
A little seasonal treat! A romp through the strangest of Christmas gift-guides, via history, anonymous interludes and the Boar's Head Tavern. Seasons greetings to you! 🎄
Dec 26, 2024 • 12min
Twelve Days of Christmas - Partridges and Turtle Doves
A little seasonal treat! A romp through the strangest of Christmas gift-guides, via comedy, history, metamorphosis and myth. Seasons greetings to you! 🎄
Dec 22, 2024 • 12min
King Lear | Episode 49 - Thou Shalt Never Have My Curse
The Hamlet Podcast - a weekly exploration of Shakespeare's King Lear.
Act II Scene ii - Lear continues to shout at Regan and Cornwall and fixate on Kent's having been put in the stocks.
Written and presented by Conor Hanratty
Dec 15, 2024 • 13min
King Lear | Episode 48 - You Are Old
The Hamlet Podcast - a weekly exploration of Shakespeare's King Lear.
Act II Scene ii - Regan and Cornwall appear at last. Regan gives Lear a very surprising command.
Written and presented by Conor Hanratty
Dec 8, 2024 • 16min
King Lear | Episode 47 - The Fiery Duke
The Hamlet Podcast - a weekly exploration of Shakespeare's King Lear.
Act II Scene ii - Lear returns with Gloucester, furious at being denied access to his daughter and her husband.
Written and presented by Conor Hanratty
Dec 1, 2024 • 10min
King Lear | Episode 46 - The Fool Will Stay
The Hamlet Podcast - a weekly exploration of Shakespeare's King Lear.
Act II Scene ii - After Lear's exit, Kent, Lear's Knight and the Fool continue the conversation.
Written and presented by Conor Hanratty
Nov 24, 2024 • 14min
King Lear | Episode 45 - This Mother
The Hamlet Podcast - a weekly exploration of Shakespeare's King Lear.
Act II Scene ii - Kent explains how he wound up in the stocks. The Fool says another little ditty, and Lear worries that he's almost overcome.
Written and presented by Conor Hanratty
Nov 17, 2024 • 12min
King Lear | Episode 44 - Cruel Garters
The Hamlet Podcast - a weekly exploration of Shakespeare's King Lear.
Act II Scene ii - Lear, the Fool and one of the Knights arrive, shocked to find Kent in the stocks.
Written and presented by Conor Hanratty
Nov 10, 2024 • 13min
King Lear | Episode 43 - Poor Tom
The Hamlet Podcast - a weekly exploration of Shakespeare's King Lear.
Act II Scene ii - Edgar appears, and explains his startling plan.
Written and presented by Conor Hanratty
